Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
street/plaza
Usage: broad or open place or plaza
Rechob means “width” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7339 רְחוֹב רְחוֹב (rchob) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area It has 41 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include street, streets, broad, place, and way. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area [from H7337] KJV: broad place (way), street. See also H1050. Root(s): H7337 See also: H1050
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street/plaza
Usage: broad or open place or plaza
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rchob, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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41 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7339.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
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Rechob (Strong's H7339) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "width". rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area
This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's H7339 across 20 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7339 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as street, streets, broad, place, and way. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.